Adrien-Alice Hansel 's headshot

Department

  • Drama
  • Biography:

     Adrien-Alice Hansel is the Literary Director at Studio, where she has dramaturged the world premieres of  Queen of BaselThe RemainsNo Sisters, IWannaFucking Tear You Apart, Animal, Laugh, Red Speedo, Dirt, Lungs, and The History of Kisses as well as productions of White Pearl, The Children, Cry It OutTranslationsCurve of Departure, The Effect, WigOut!, Straight White Men, Cloud 9, Hedda Gabler,  Jumpers for Goalposts, Bad Jews (twice),  Invisible Man, Sucker Punch, The Golden Dragon, and The New Electric Ballroom, among others. Prior to joining Studio, she spent eight seasons at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, where she headed the literary department and coordinated project scouting, selection, and development for the Humana Festival of New American Plays. She also served as production dramaturg on roughly 50 new, contemporary, and classic plays there, including premieres by Naomi Wallace, Gina Gionfriddo, Kirk Lynn and Rude Mechs, Rinne Groff, The Civilians, Anne Bogart and SITI Company, Jordan Harrison, and John Belluso. She is the co-editor of eight anthologies of plays from Actors Theatre and editor of eight editions of plays through Studio. Adrien-Alice holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama.